James Server as a WAR

2008-02-03 Thread Bernd Fondermann
Hi, Triggered by recent posts by Jukka and others, I am starting to work on a spring-deployment based web archive (WAR) deployment. Deploying James in Tomcat or Jetty might look odd to some. And it really in a way is since there is no HTTP based functionality in James. But this deployment would m

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Feb 3, 2008 9:51 AM, Bernd Fondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Triggered by recent posts by Jukka and others, I am starting to work > on a spring-deployment based web archive (WAR) deployment. > Deploying James in Tomcat or Jetty might look odd to some. And it > really in a way is si

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-03 Thread Danny Angus
On Feb 3, 2008 9:51 AM, Bernd Fondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do others think? Long overdue. My opinion in the past was that James should be deployable in a J2EE container but I always envisaged that as EJB's and JCA in an EAR rather than at the WAR level. But if you can do it then g

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-04 Thread Bernd Fondermann
Danny Angus wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 9:51 AM, Bernd Fondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do others think? Long overdue. My opinion in the past was that James should be deployable in a J2EE container but I always envisaged that as EJB's and JCA in an EAR rather than at the WAR level. But if

RE: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-04 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> What do others think? I think that: - The Web container is the wrong container - We should be doing OSGi, not Spring - None of this has anything to do with improving JAMES for mainstream use But have fun, as long as you don't break JAMES and/or introduce overhead. :-) --- Noel

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-05 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Feb 5, 2008 5:56 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do others think? > > I think that: > > - The Web container is the wrong container One has to get used to it. ;-) > - We should be doing OSGi, not Spring +0 for starting a pure OSGi deployment. This is such a massive

RE: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Bernd Fondermann wrote: > > - The Web container is the wrong container > One has to get used to it. ;-) Oh, please, I spend more time in the web container than you do awake. :-p Still doesn't make the web container the right place to embed a fairly heavy mail server, as opposed to providing a

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-05 Thread Danny Angus
Embeding james in databases is not as silly as you seem to think, Dan Debruner proposed embeding james in derby a couple of years ago. Admins want to run the products they know, and as little else as possible. On 2/6/08, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernd Fondermann wrote: > > > >

RE: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Embeding james in databases is not as silly as you seem to think, Dan > Debruner proposed embeding james in derby a couple of years ago. > Admins want to run the products they know, and as little else as > possible. That's generally down to laziness, not good architecture. And it can hamper ot

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Feb 7, 2008 10:36 PM, Steve Brewin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote on 07 February 2008 00:14: > > > Embeding james in databases is not as silly as you seem to > > think, Dan > > > Debruner proposed embeding james in derby a couple of years ago. > > > Admins want to run the pro

RE: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-07 Thread Steve Brewin
Noel J. Bergman wrote on 07 February 2008 00:14: > > Embeding james in databases is not as silly as you seem to > think, Dan > > Debruner proposed embeding james in derby a couple of years ago. > > Admins want to run the products they know, and as little else as > > possible. > > That's generally

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-07 Thread Serge Knystautas
On Feb 3, 2008 4:51 AM, Bernd Fondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Triggered by recent posts by Jukka and others, I am starting to work > on a spring-deployment based web archive (WAR) deployment. > Deploying James in Tomcat or Jetty might look odd to some. And it > really in a way is since ther

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/8/08, Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 3, 2008 4:51 AM, Bernd Fondermann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Triggered by recent posts by Jukka and others, I am starting to work > > on a spring-deployment based web archive (WAR) deployment. > > Deploying James in Tomcat or Jet

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-08 Thread Danny Angus
On Feb 7, 2008 12:14 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's generally down to laziness, not good architecture. I don't think its fair to characterize the perfectly reasonable desire to minimise the admin overhead of systems, and the size of the skills base required as "laziness"

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-08 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Feb 3, 2008 11:51 AM, Bernd Fondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Triggered by recent posts by Jukka and others, I am starting to work > on a spring-deployment based web archive (WAR) deployment. > [...] > What do others think? >From my perspective and use cases I mostly care about James

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-08 Thread Danny Angus
On Feb 8, 2008 8:27 AM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From my perspective and use cases I mostly care about James being > modular and easily embeddable. You're not the only one, there are many many use-cases that see James embedded to provide the embedor with high quality adaptable m

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-08 Thread Serge Knystautas
On Feb 8, 2008 3:17 AM, Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008 12:14 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's generally down to laziness, not good architecture. > > I don't think its fair to characterize the perfectly reasonable desire > to minimise the admin ov

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-08 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/8/08, Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 8:27 AM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From my perspective and use cases I mostly care about James being > > modular and easily embeddable. +1 > You're not the only one, there are many many use-cases that see Jam

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-08 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Feb 8, 2008 3:20 PM, Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 3:17 AM, Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2008 12:14 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > That's generally down to laziness, not good architecture. > > > > I don't think its

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-08 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Feb 9, 2008 7:09 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 3:20 PM, Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 8, 2008 3:17 AM, Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 7, 2008 12:14 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > T

Re: James Server as a WAR

2008-02-14 Thread Norman Maurer
Am Sonntag, den 03.02.2008, 10:51 +0100 schrieb Bernd Fondermann: > Hi, > > Triggered by recent posts by Jukka and others, I am starting to work > on a spring-deployment based web archive (WAR) deployment. > Deploying James in Tomcat or Jetty might look odd to some. And it > really in a way is si